Interview: Iraq hopes to start new chapter after Kuwait conference

15/02/2018

Kuwait on Monday opened a week of conferences seeking aid for rebuildingIraq after the onslaught of the Islamic State group, seeking tens of billions of dollars for a nation only a generation ago that invaded it.

"If we do not start to invest in children's education today, this generation will be lost and will not be able to contribute to the economy and the security of Iraq when they grow up", Hawkins warned.

Earlier, the International Organization for Migration said that by the end of 2017, more than 3.2 million Iraqis had returned home, but 2.6 million remain displaced.

Reconstruction in Iraq is badly needed after years of civil war.

During the summer of 2014, Kuwait contributed $10 million to United Nations humanitarian agencies and IOM in response to the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Iraq and donated $3 million to UNHCR in support of the organization's operations in Iraq.

The hardline militants, who lost all territory they held in Iraq and are on the cusp of defeat in Syria, are trying to gain territory in other countries where they are active, he said, adding that "History must not be allowed to repeat itself elsewhere".

"I think the coming course of history in Iraq will start again from the gate of this conference (Kuwait global conference) if we are serious in rebuilding the Iraqi state", Hiti said.

According to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, the country needs up to US$100 billion to fix its crumbling infrastructure and cities devastated by the Islamic State. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will attend the conference, and he has said that there are "Arab donors willing to help and support".

The rest are structural and infrastructure reforms which will serve to create a safe environment within which third party investors can be guaranteed safeguarding, including security from ISIL-related threats and business guarantees.

"If communities in Iraq and Syria can not return to normal life, we risk the return of conditions that allowed ISIS to take and control vast territory", U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told a donors' conference for Iraq hosted by Kuwait.

"We finished one battle but we are engaged now with a war for reconstruction", said Mustafa al-Hiti, the head of Iraq's reconstruction fund for areas affected by terrorist operations. Millions have died in the never-ending wars fought in the country and tens of thousands more could perish if the country is not given help to get back on its own feet. We were there to participate in the coalition. "We will also be there in the reconstruction phase", he said.

He is also set to express France's opposition to any death penalty for two French women awaiting trial in Iraq over accusations of joining ISIL.

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